Letters

During the People’s Faire this year many people wrote letters at the Amnesty International table in support of the Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. He was arrested by Israel almost 17 months ago and still has not been charged with a crime. No one has accused him of acts of violence, and many believe he was arrested for daring to write in support of a policy that would create one country where both Jews and Arabs would live together with equal rights. For some Israeli Jews this is a dangerous idea and must be suppressed.

This year’s Millfest can be summed up as great people, great weather and a great time. On behalf of everyone who participates in the millfest, I would like to thank our millfest sponsors for their invaluable assistance in helping put this event on.

How can you perpetuate the lies against the GOP as regards to gridlock and the national debt as stated in your Sept. 3 editorial?

Great damage was done during the Democratic-controlled Senate and House from 2001 to 2010: A fact never mentioned by leftist media.
Thank God, the GOP took over the House in 2010 to slow the damages created by uncontrolled liberals! Every budget the House has proposed since 2010 is buried by the Democratic-controlled Senate. This Democratic Senate is the cause of all gridlock!

Glaringly absent from Frank Splendoria’s Sept. 7 letter was any mention of poverty and social justice. Very strange, considering these issues are directly relevant to “the principle[s] of the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family.”

Mitt Romney gave the American people a dose of voodoo economics in his interview on Meet the Press this past Sunday.

He wants to lower taxes for everybody, thereby stimulating the economy. This same trickle-down theory has not grown the economy since invented. He wants defense spending at 4 percent of GDP yet he told the VFW that he wants to increase it by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Then he said that he would eliminate the deficit by the end of his second term. These are contradictory goals.

On behalf of my wife, Eloisa, and my children, Carlos, Nora Juarros, Mary Ellen Gallegos and Clara Garcia, we would like to thank Wagon Mound School Superintendent Albert Martinez and the members of the Board of Education for approving a resolution to name the school administration building the Zack and Eloisa Montoya Administration Building.

Special thanks go to Mr. Tom Herrera for initiating the proposed naming and bringing the idea to Superintendent Martinez, who then presented it to the board.

I want to thank Tom McDonald for his (Aug. 27) editorial asserting what the oil and gas industry’s carpet-baggers will not tell you, our commissioners (including Ron Ortega), or Ron Barela; namely, that the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), over 60 years and a million wells later, has proven to cause irreparable harm to the groundwater, livestock and humans living on or near fracking sites. The long and well documented history of “fraccidents” (including fatalities) speaks for itself.

• I would be more willing to pay the higher rates if the money only went to repair and maintain the water and sewer system. No parks, vehicles, extra employees, etc., just the water and sewer system. Don’t consider this a “slush” fund. There should be a date given when rates will be reduced, just in case someone forgets.